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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Louisville, KY

August 25, 1997Boyle County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1997, 9:22 AM EDT for Boyle County, Kentucky. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 25, 1997, 9:22 AM EDT (13:22 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 1997, 9:40 AM EDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Boyle County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 227 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -400 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1223 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 25, 9:18 AM EDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
919 AM EDT MON AUG 25 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0730 AM    LAWRENCEBURG              KY   .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/97   ANDERSON

0800 AM    SALVISA                   KY   .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/97   MERCER

Local storm report, Aug 25, 9:19 AM EDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
919 AM EDT MON AUG 25 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0730 AM    LAWRENCEBURG              KY   .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/97   ANDERSON

0800 AM    SALVISA                   KY   .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/97   MERCER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 7:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford	32 min
Aug 25, 8:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	35 min
Aug 25, 9:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson	31 min
Aug 25, 9:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	27 min
Aug 25, 10:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	11 min
Aug 25, 10:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	28 min
Aug 25, 11:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hart	33 min
Aug 25, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	27 min
Aug 25, 1:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	29 min
Aug 25, 1:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	33 min
Aug 25, 10:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.